Turkey's Financial Markets: Challenges And Opportunities

NEW YORK, Sept. 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- A panel discussion on Turkey's financial markets will be presented by The American Turkish Society at 12noon on Tuesday, October 7, 2014 at Baker & McKenzie, 452 Fifth Avenue.

Taking place just days after Fitch Ratings' review of Turkey on October 3, the event will focus on the challenges and opportunities facing Turkey's financial markets. The likely trajectory of Turkey's monetary and fiscal policies in the near term will also be discussed. 

Michael Marrese is a Managing Director at JPMorgan and Head of Economic Research and Sovereign Strategy for CEEMEA (Central-Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa). Since 2001, Marrese has been a Visiting Professor in Economics at Royal Holloway University of London and Research Associate of the Centre for New and Emerging Markets, London Business School.  Before moving to investment banking he was at the IMF.

Paul Rawkins is a senior director and the longest serving analyst of the Fitch Ratings sovereign team. He joined IBCA prior to the merger with Fitch, after an extensive career in sovereign risk analysis at Lloyds Bank UK. After being assigned to the Institute of International Finance in Washington in 1986, he returned to Lloyds in 1989 as head of the country risk department. He was also directly involved in sovereign debt negotiations associated with the Brady plans for the major middle income debtor countries.  Rawkins heads up the Emerging Europe team.

Moderator is Murat Koprulu, head of the Emerging Markets Group at Mariner Investment Group LLC, an alternative investment management firm which manages more than $11 billion of assets across multiple credit and fixed income related strategies.  Koprulu is an expert on Middle East geopolitics and a frequent media commentator on emerging market economies, Turkey, and U.S.-Turkey relations. Koprulu serves as Chairman of the Board of The American Turkish Society.

Founded in 1949, The American Turkish Society is the oldest American institution dedicated to building bridges between the US and Turkey in order to achieve common goals of peace and prosperity as well as enhance business, economic, diplomatic, and cultural ties between Turkey and the United States through education, cultural exchange, philanthropy, and networking.

SOURCE The American Turkish Society